Clues for the word "WEED"

We've had 183 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 430 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on March 18, 2026.

Definition of weed

n. - A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
n. - An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.
n. - A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
n. - Underbrush; low shrubs.
n. - Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
n. - Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
n. - An animal unfit to breed from.
n. - Tobacco, or a cigar.
v. t. - To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
v. t. - To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
v. t. - To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
v. t. - To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.